R11 CCM v WSW at Gosford

[Big Al]

I disagree - the team cannot let last weekend define the season.

The other way to look at this is the abysmal treatment they received on the weekend can be used by Okon as a motivational tool to focus the guys and steel their resolve. Okon and the players need to remember what happened. However, they can't let it be an excuse for future performances - but rather they need to rise above it as a group.

I admire the restraint but when do you stand up to bullying and corruption and say enough is enough?

However nothing we do will make the FFA care.

 

[VicMariner]

Imagine if someone jumped the fence and smashed that little sideline VAR monitor....
..and it happened every game....
...every round until it's gone and we have OUR game back.

ETA
$5000 fine per game? $25k per round
Sounds like a doable crowd fund.

 

[VicMariner]

Wow, words almost fail me but let me just make sure I’ve got this straight. McGing, glances Baccus with the sole of his boot and little or no impact and gets upgraded from a yellow to a red card, which is upheld by the MRP, whereas Llorente could have broken McGing’s ankle but gets a yellow and nowt else. Am I missing anything?

I always knew the administration of this league was a joke but this latest episode has taken it to farcical levels and there may be no way back from this. The integrity of the competition is so trashed by what has been going on that the A League has become a laughing stock outside the code and there seems to be no-one within the FFA with the balls or wherewithal to do anything about it.

I am very, very concerned about where Australian football is headed to on it’s current trajectory but hey the Socceroos have qualified for Russia, so everything is rosy right?

Okon will do his nut over this debacle and rightly so too. He should call the FFA out in his next presser and I would be happy to chip in for the fine.

I think this is what is the main insult. Llorente's tackle was by far the worst of the night.
Also that maggot Santalab hacking all game.

 

[Big Al]

Imagine if someone jumped the fence and smashed that little sideline VAR monitor....
..and it happened every game....
...every round until it's gone and we have OUR game back.

ETA
$5000 fine per game? $25k per round
Sounds like a doable crowd fund.

Think it was Twitter that had if it was the NPL the home team would have just cut the power. We need to wise up and come up with these tricks, but no one thought they were serious until the two reds were flashed

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

I think this is what is the main insult. Llorente's tackle was by far the worst of the night.
Also that maggot Santalab hacking all game.

And this has always been the problem with the MRP. Picking and choosing. They've always been dodgy as f***.

Santalab and Llorente should both have been cited by the MRP because the dodgy f****** VAR didn't look at those.

And that reasoning for letting Bobo off? Never heard a bigger load of shit in my life. Also, the 'it's been dealt with' reason? These f***tards always pick and choose which incidents they look at, and when to use the 'it's been dealt with' excuse. They're as dodgy as the VAR, always have been - and they've broken that 'rule' plenty of times.

Call it conspiracy, but if Brama didn't get sent off, we all know he'd still be facing the MRP.

As for McGing, that's a clear and obvious error to send him - disgusting that this card stands. There wasn't a hint of a red card in that.

I think what's most frustrating is just the helplessness. They're treating us and the game with utter contempt, there's no integrity at any point, and it feels like there's nothing we can do about it.

 

[Ozhammer]

Why don’t the active support groups get together and come up with suitable tifos to make it clear to the FFA How disillusioned us fans are with how the league is presently being run?

If the FFA banned any tifos, there would be the opportunity to get the press on board with the FFA silencing free speech and genuine fan sentiment.

 

[pjennings]

I admire the restraint but when do you stand up to bullying and corruption and say enough is enough?

However nothing we do will make the FFA care.

It's not constraint. Mike, Shaun and Paolo can go to town at the FFA. The team, however, needs to focus and not waste any time or energy about things they can't change.

 

[Pirate Pete]

https://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/article/2017/12/19/mariners-have-no-avenue-appeal-var-red-cards

 

[Wombat]

Strebe was on Bill and Boz.
He admitted the McGing decision WAS WRONG but Boz was too weak to ask him why the FFA still banned him for 1 week.
The stooge had the gall to say the Scum penalty wasn't a Howler, so they didn't overturn it.
WTF.....I like Streb but he talked a lot of shit tonight.
The pearler was ......HAL refs have a 98% correct decision rating up 4% since the VAR was implemented.
His eyes were definitely brown....that's how full of shit he is.

 

[Gratis]

They get to define 'correct decision' is the problem

Independent watchdog time?

 

[true believer]

Invading the pitch honestly crossed my mind.

you'd have to send a text message and with my bung knee it would take me 5 minutes to get to the fence .
but im keen

 

[true believer]

var two for two f'k ups
the ffa two for two rubber stamping fraud

 

[true believer]

notice there is no comment section on the "Fraud Fake Artifice web site

 

[Forum Phoenix]

Strebe was on Bill and Boz.
He admitted the McGing decision WAS WRONG but Boz was too weak to ask him why the FFA still banned him for 1 week.
The stooge had the gall to say the Scum penalty wasn't a Howler, so they didn't overturn it.
WTF.....I like Streb but he talked a lot of shit tonight.
The pearler was ......HAL refs have a 98% correct decision rating up 4% since the VAR was implemented.
His eyes were definitely brown....that's how full of shit he is.

So out of every 100 decisions, they get two wrong. Amazing.

EPL is touted to be 92%.

Right welI, sorry McGing and co but that fixes everything. I will now watch every game knowing just how close I am to watching total refereeing perfection.

But seriously what about everything they miss? When a Bobo rakes a leg or a Risdon shoulders in late... It's not just when they make the wrong decision outright - and who is the qualified independent assessor that they get that stat from?

I'd love to pay some independent but experienced referees to go through ten CCM HAL games and look for every missed foul and every mistake.

I'll eat my new Mariners shirt if their error rate is 1 in 50.

 

[Wombat]

I'd say their correct decision rate is about 50%.
I'd say the VAR correct rate is about 25%.

As usual the HAL refs are very poor.

 

[Big Al]

They certainly went on the PR offensive last night and the muppets were certainly soft as hell. I was watching bits of it while trying to find something else to watch.

How they can say AU wasn’t a howler is the exact reason we all think they are blind but McGing got overuled but we get 98%.

When i mark myself I get a 100% right so they can’t even do that right.

There was a tweet about who in the media wants it and who doesn’t and someone said Adam Peacock was pro. He replied with its the powers that be that want it and i see the winds of change with Europe etc to introduce. It said everything about what Fox and FFA wants

 

[tim...]

I think the most galling thing is that no safety net exists when there's obvious f**k ups.

All the important people (O'Rourke, Strebre) etc have admitted McGing's incident was wrong adjudicated... so why are we all sitting here bemused he got one week? How is there not a system that prevents a player from being suspended when officials have admitted it was incorrect?

It boggles the mind that it cannot be overturned.

 

[nebakke]

They get to define 'correct decision' is the problem

Independent watchdog time?

Yeah - it's a bit like wen the state government redefined "on-time" for trains, to be within 10 minutes of the scheduled departure... Suddenly every train was on-time... Well almost every train...

 

[VicMariner]

Strebe was on Bill and Boz.
He admitted the McGing decision WAS WRONG but Boz was too weak to ask him why the FFA still banned him for 1 week.
The stooge had the gall to say the Scum penalty wasn't a Howler, so they didn't overturn it.
WTF.....I like Streb but he talked a lot of shit tonight.
The pearler was ......HAL refs have a 98% correct decision rating up 4% since the VAR was implemented.
His eyes were definitely brown....that's how full of shit he is.

Yeah, I watched that.
I used to like Bozza but now see him as a dick. Made me sick to see him happy with the WSW win.
He should have been all over Strebre.

 

[tim...]

Bozza ran hard at Nick Meredith over it. Classic stuff.